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The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (Rules) may change the case management, scope, and sanctions related to e-discovery in federal courts, starting in late 2015. Proposed changes seek to encourage early and active case management, ensure proportionality in e-discovery, and advance…

by Terri A. Thomas The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California unanimously adopted new guidelines regarding the discovery of electronically stored information (“ESI”). The guidelines are tools “designed to promote cooperative e-discovery planning . . . that is tailored and proportionate to…

The first rule of successful lawyering is that one must be a zealous advocate for his or her client. While this mantra is essential to best practice, it should not be followed to the exclusion of traditional trial etiquette. This was…

This piece was first published on the blog From the Sidebar and is reprinted with permission. By Hayes Hunt and Michael Zabel Today, oral argument will be heard in Commonwealth v. Koch, a case in which the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is…

Pennsylvania recently adopted amendments to its Rules of Civil Procedure that govern e-discovery practice in the Commonwealth. Although the amendments to Rules 4009 and 4011 (requests for production and the scope of discovery, respectively) use the federal term “electronically stored…

On March 16, 2012, in Race Tires America, Inc. v. Hoosier Racing Tire Corp. et al.,[1] the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit adopted a conservative view of the types of e-discovery costs recoverable by a prevailing party…

During the last decade, individuals and business have changed the way they manage their data by moving this data management offsite – otherwise known as cloud computing. This differs from the old model of information management that, more or less, mirrored…

It is pretty rare for a court to sanction a non-party, but in Amerisource Corp. v. Rx USA Int’l Inc., et al.,2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 67108 (July 6. 2010), that is exactly what the Eastern District of New York decided…

In the eDiscovery context, there are quite a few unusual terms thrown around: “Web 2.0,” “De-Duplicating,” “Non-native data” to name but a few. One concept that has been blogged about for years, but is still relatively confusing is “Cloud Computing.”…

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